Claremont Topology Seminar: Chris Grossack (UC Riverside)

We welcome all undergraduate/graduate students and faculty to attend topology seminar!

Speaker: Chris Grossack (UC Riverside)

Title: Explicitly Computing Fukaya Categories of Surfaces

Abstract: Fukaya categories are rich and interesting invariants of symplectic manifolds that are often difficult to compute in practice. In the case of surfaces, however, the computation becomes pleasantly combinatorial, and can be carried out explicitly. In this expository talk we’ll explain why one might care about Fukaya categories and how one can compute them explicitly enough for computer implementation using tools from “Noncommutative Mirror Symmetry”. With any remaining time, we’ll explain the ideas behind the speaker’s PhD thesis, which relies heavily on this machinery.